PLACE GUIDE: A PROCESS FOR IMPROVED PLACE-BASED DECISION MAKING SCOTTISH FUTURES TRUST


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Understanding the Place approach


Process 6 Progressing ideas for future Place


What are the best (fairest, quickest, most efficient) ways of delivering the future Place?


Place Framework: Place Narrative & Place Actions


What is this for?


This step expands on the Place Brief, ensuring a focus on maximising all resources spent in the Place to deliver shared aspirations. The focus should be on distilling the evaluation of alternatives, and agreeing a Place Diagram that sets out the deployment of key interventions and actions to meet the revised set of priorities for the place.


That involves understanding what’s already in motion that can be adapted to deliver the vision for the future Place, including revisiting the map of who is planning what, who has what, who is willing to share what, who is building what. This might mean:


• rethinking existing projects: which spaces to share, transfer to community or dispose or potentially stopping


• reshaping to create the right spaces e.g. post COVID moving staff from A to B to create shared hubs


• exploring non-spatial options via coproduction, partnering promoting joint business cases


• viewing space & landscape projects as ‘connecting projects’ linking service points.


These in turn generate options to appraise or scenarios for further development in existing business case or this initiative.


The Diagram should have some picture of the total assets and spaces available in the place, and a view of the projects in motion/planned, and some analysis of how the place works. It should identify:


• the anchor around which a series of actions will coalesce


• some kind of clustering or zoning which suggests roughly the priorities in different parts of the Place


• linkages between the priority areas • where relevant, some expression of ‘non negotiables’.


Any project should relate back to the Place Brief and relate back to the Diagram to explain why and how the project helps realise the ambition.


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Confirming Place


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Determining Place resources & governance


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Defining current Place


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Programming activities for future Place


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Partnering to deliver future Place


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Progressing ideas for future Place


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Describing future Place


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